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In May 1968, Bellcomm planners Noel Hinners, Farouk El-Baz, and A. Goetz described a unique post-Apollo mission to the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille region of the moon. The mission would see a melding of manned and automated lunar exploration, yielding results greater than either astronauts or exploring machines could achieve on their own.
Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz invoked an Extended Lunar Module (ELM) capable of bearing 750 pounds of payload to the moon's surface. During the crew's first venture outside the ELM, they would rendezvous with a waiting Unmanned Lunar Roving Vehicle (ULRV). The wheeled ULRV, with a mass of between 1,500 and 3,000 pounds, would have landed some 500 kilometers from the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille ELM site some time earlier, then made its way to meet the astronauts, all the while beaming TV images of its surroundings to Earth, charting the moon's gravity and magnetic fields, leaving behind Remote Geophysical Monitor instrument packages, and collecting rock samples. The ELM astronauts would retrieve the ULRV rock samples for return to Earth.
The Bellcomm planners proposed four candidate traverse routes for the ULRV (map above). For route 1, the automated rover would land in the Sulpicius Gallus region of southwest Mare Serenitatis and strike north through an area of north/south-trending rilles (canyons) and dark, possibly volcanic and young, surface material. The lunar Apennine Mountains would dominate the western horizon as the ULRV rolled northward, gradually entering a region with lighter and older surface materials.
At the contact between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Imbrium, the rover would turn west, then south, so the Apennines would dominate its eastern horizon. The ULRV would pass through hills made up of rocks of the Fra Mauro Formation, which was widely interpreted as ejecta from the immense ancient impact that created Mare Imbrium. Finally, it would carefully pick its way across steep-sided Hadley Rille (also known as Rima Hadley) and park close to the planned ELM landing site near Hadley C. The Bellcomm researchers declared 10-kilometer-wide Hadley C to be a "probable maar" – that is, a crater-like surface feature produced when rising magma comes into contact with subsurface ice or water, generating a steam explosion.
Route 2 would see the ULRV land south of the crater Alexander in northern Mare Serenitatis. The rover would strike southwest toward the Mare Serenitatis-Mare Imbrium contact through a region of hummocky Highland rock units, including probable examples of the Fra Mauro Formation. The route would cross dark materials (possible young volcanics) and light materials (possible rays from young impact craters) before it turned south to follow the same path to the ELM site as the route 1 ULRV.
The ULRV for traverse route 3 would land in southern Mare Imbrium west of the "ghost" crater Wallace, an ancient impact crater mostly submerged by flowing lava in the distant past. The rover would trundle eastward across a bright ray from the young large crater Copernicus, than pass through a crater chain to reach Wallace's subdued, ancient rim. Once there, it would strike out northeastward across eastern Mare Imbrium, then over the Apennine Bench (a possible volcanic ash or flow deposit), before crossing Palus Putredinis to Hadley C and the ELM site.
Route 4 would begin at the ULRV landing site in central Mare Imbrium, in an area with many new-looking wrinkle ridges. The ULRV would surmount one such ridge on its way to the north rim of the large smooth-floored crater Archimedes. After picking its way through the boulders and crevasses near Archimedes' rim, the ULRV would turn southwest through a region of exposed bedrock, then would cross hummocky Fra Mauro Formation hills and Palus Putredinis before parking near the ELM site.
The Bellcomm planners identified routes 1 and 2 as having the greatest potential for increasing geophysical understanding of the moon. In addition, route 1 would pass through terrain similar to that at Littrow, another candidate post-Apollo landing site, possibly freeing the proposed Littrow ELM mission to explore elsewhere on the moon. The Littrow is located on the eastern side of Mare Serenitatis.
Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz noted that, in addition to collecting a diverse suite of samples along its 500-kilometer traverse path, the ULRV might be used to survey the ELM landing site, which was located on the Hadley Rille rim at 26° 52' North, 3° 00' East (red star on the Hadley C site map above). The ULRV survey might eliminate the need for high-resolution orbital photography of the area. The rover might also act as a landing beacon for the ELM and serve as a radio relay for the astronauts exploring the site, which would contain many places where they might pass behind hills and into trenches, out of line-of-sight radio contact with the ELM.
Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz noted other operational difficulties of the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille ELM site. The most important involved lighting. The ELM would approach the site from the east with the Sun behind it, pass over the Apennine Mountains, then descend almost vertically on the west side of the range. As it descended, it would plunge suddenly into shadow cast by the mountains. On some landing dates, the astronauts might touch down in darkness lit only by sunlight reflected off the Hadley C rim and other features beyond the shadow; in others, they would emerge from shadow into dazzling sunlight just before touchdown.
The scientists were convinced, however, that the scientific benefits of their ELM site would outweigh these difficulties. They wrote that
This site is important among those proposed in that it may provide access to a major portion of lunar history.... Such access comes from over 1 km of vertical relief resulting from the combination of the Apennines Mountains scarp, the rim of the Imbrium Basin[,] and the rille.... This historical sequence may run from materials that constitute original lunar crust to relatively young materials derived from that crust. The oldest crustal materials in the area, possibly exposed in the lower part of the Apennine Front to the east of the proposed landing area, should provide data bearing directly on the problems of the primary physical and chemical composition of the Moon and thus, indirectly, of the Earth.
The scientists noted that the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, had established as a ground rule that only a single Extravehicular Activity (EVA) could take place on the first and last days of a lunar landing mission. The first three-hour EVA (purple on Handley C site map) of the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille mission, on landing day, would see the astronauts walk to the parked ULRV to retrieve the samples it had gathered during its traverse. They would also work together to assemble and point at Earth the umbrella-like S-band antenna, inspect the ELM's exterior for any damage incurred during descent and landing, deploy "staytime extension equipment" (for example, a small solar array for generating supplemental electricity), and unstow the mission's twin 180-pound Lunar Flying Units (LFUs).
NASA and its contractors had studied the concept of the LFU, a speedy, manned rocket-powered hopper, for several years by the time Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz made it a critical part of their Apennine Front-Hadley Rille mission. If all went as planned, the ELM would land with close to 1,000 pounds of propellants remaining in its descent stage tanks. At the start of the first EVA of day 2 (green on Hadley C site map), the astronauts would spend 30 minutes pumping into each LFU 300 pounds of propellants from the ELM. They would also load LFU #1 with cameras and film, geologic tools including a 25-pound hand drill for collecting sample cores, and sample containers.
Astronaut #1 would then fly LFU #1 3.3 kilometers to his first stop, the Apennine Front-mare contact, where he would spend one hour collecting up to 25 pounds of samples, including cores drilled to a depth of 10 feet. He would then fly two kilometers to the top of the Apennine ridge, about 500 meters above the ELM. He would spend an hour there collecting another 25 pounds of samples. The Bellcomm planners explained that materials blasted from "depths of several tens of kilometers in the moon" by the Imbrium impact might be draped over the sites he visited. These would, they argued, "offer our best chances to examine 'primitive' planetary materials which have not been affected by later planetary differentiation processes."
Astronaut #2, meanwhile, would deploy the 280-pound Apollo Lunar Scientific Experiment Package (ALSEP) near the ELM. He would also stand by LFU #2 to rescue Astronaut #1 in the event that LFU #1 failed on top of the ridge, which would lie just beyond the five-kilometer "walk-back limit" of the Apollo space suits. Assuming, however, that LFU #1 gave no trouble, Astronaut #1 would fly it 5.2 kilometers back to the landing site and join Astronaut #2 inside the ELM for lunch and rest.
To begin the second EVA of mission day 2 (blue on the Hadley C site map), Astronaut #1 would board LFU #2 and fly 3.2 kilometers west of the ELM to the bottom of Hadley Rille. Astronaut #2, meanwhile, would walk to a point on the Rille rim within sight of both Astronaut #1 and the ELM. He would collect up to 25 pounds of samples and serve as a radio relay linking Astronaut #1 to the ELM and, through the ELM, to Earth. After 1.5 hours of sampling the shadowed floor of Hadley Rille, Astronaut #1 would fly LFU #2 4.8 kilometers to the Hadley C rim. He would spend 30 minutes sampling, then would fly back to the ELM. At no point would Astronaut #1 pass beyond the Apollo suit walk-back limit, so Astronaut #2 would have no need to stand by LFU #1 to mount a rescue.
The fourth and final EVA of the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille mission (yellow on the Hadley C site map) would occur on departure day. After loading LFU #1 with propellants, Astronaut #1 would fly 2.5 kilometers west of the ELM to two sets of crater pairs. After 30 minutes of sample collection, he would fly 1.5 kilometers to a crater on Hadley Rille's rim, where he would again sample for 30 minutes. Finally, he would fly three kilometers to a "promontory" on the Rille rim, sample for 30 minutes, and fly 1.4 kilometers back to the ELM.
Astronaut #2, meanwhile, would "conduct local investigations" close by the ELM, "adjust ALSEP experiments," and prepare samples for return to Earth. After returning to the ELM, Astronaut #1 would assist Astronaut #2. After packing up about 100 pounds of samples, they would lift off in the ELM ascent stage, leaving behind the LFUs and other equipment.
They would also leave behind many of the samples they had collected. Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz noted that, while the ULRV would collect some unspecified (but probably large) quantity of unique samples during its 500-kilometer traverse and the astronauts might collect about 200 pounds of samples, the ELM ascent stage could carry only 100 pounds of payload into lunar orbit. This meant that the sample packing process would mostly involve hurried screening, with the majority of the samples collected during the mission being thrown away. They also noted that their EVA schedule was very tight, so that mission success would depend "on everything going with clockwork precision during the crowded EVA periods."
To solve these problems, they proposed that the ELM for the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille mission be upgraded to permit a 1,000-pound science payload, a four-day surface stay, and 200 pounds of returned samples. This would, among other things, enable addition of a walking traverse to the Apennine Front-mare contact and a 400-pound Advanced ALSEP. Additional staytime would permit more care to be taken in selecting samples for return to Earth; at the same time, doubling the returned sample would make sample screening less critical.
Apollo 15, the first of three advanced J-mission Apollos, landed at 26° 8′ North, 3° 38′ East, about 30 kilometers northeast of the Hinners, El-Baz, and Goetz ELM landing site, on 30 July 1971 (image at top of post). The site, close to where Hadley Rille turned sharply toward the northwest, was farther from the mountains than the Hadley C site, eliminating lighting problems. The LM Falcon remained on the surface for nearly three days. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin had at their disposal no LFU; the concept, though much studied, had gained little traction, in large part because of Astronaut Office opposition.
Instead, Scott and Irwin traversed their landing site using a 460-pound four-wheeled Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). They drove almost 50 kilometers during three EVAs, the longest of which lasted seven hours and 13 minutes. Falcon's ascent stage lifted off from Hadley-Apennine on August 2 with a cargo of about 170 pounds of lunar samples. Among them was 15415, "The Genesis Rock," a 4.5-billion-year-old, three-inch-wide fragment of possible primordial lunar crust.
Apollo 15 was the fourth of six successful manned lunar landings. By the time it flew, budget cuts and policy changes had forced NASA to truncate Apollo and abandon plans for post-Apollo lunar exploration. In an editorial published soon after Apollo 15, The New York Times pointed to the mission's many achievements and reminded its readers that manned lunar exploration was set to end with Apollo 17. The paper lamented how a "vast and complex technology developed at a cost of billions of dollars over the last decade is being abandoned even as its vast potentialities are being demonstrated."
A Preliminary ELM/Unmanned LRV Mission Plan for the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille Area - Case 340, N. Hinners, F. El-Baz, and A. Goetz, Bellcomm, Inc., 31 May 1968.


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Top attractions in Lisbon
Sintra: Pena Palace and Park Skip-the-Ticket-Line Entrance
Lisbon Card: 24, 48, or 72-Hour Pass
Lisbon: Sailing Tour on the Tagus River
Lisbon: 2-Hour Sunset Cruise on the Tagus River with Drinks
Lisbon Essential Tour: History, Stories & Lifestyle
From Lisbon: Sintra, Cabo da Roca and Cascais Full-Day Tour
Sintra: Castle of the Moors Fast Track Ticket
Lisbon: AeroBus Lisbon Airport Shuttle
From Sesimbra: Arrábida Natural Park Kayak and Caves Tour
Lisbon Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Tour
Lisbon: 2-Hour Guided Sailing Tour at Sunset
Top sights in Lisbon
Top 10 things to do in Lisbon
Portugal's capital city offers an unpretentious culture coupled with a splendid, historic cityscape. As one of Europe's oldest cities, it's also one of the most fascinating to explore! Here are some top tips to get you started.
Jeronimos Monastery
The magnificent Jeronimos Monastery near the shoreline of Belém was once home to the Hieronymite monks – Catholic hermits whose primary role it was to pray for the King's soul!
Bairro Alto
The loosely translated Upper Neighborhood is Lisbon's most historically opulent quarter. Bairro Alto is a great place to wander, its preserved romantic ambiance boasts some of the city's top attractions!
Lisbon Cathedral
Built in 1147 and subsequently developed over time, the Lisbon Cathedral is a bold mix of architectural styles, yet maintains the imposing authority of its Medieval incarnation.
Rossio Square
Once the scene of celebrations, bullfights, executions, and uprisings, Lisbon's historic Rossio Square is the meeting point of choice for locals and tourists alike.
The city's oldest district can be found between the São Jorge Castle and the Tagus River. Alfama is the place to be for Lisbon's best restaurants and Fado bars!
Tagus River
Whether cycling along its bank or cruising its waters, be sure to explore Lisbon's pulse. Tagus River's estuary is a haven for fish, crustaceans, and birds, including flamingos!
Commerce Square
Called Praça do Comércio in Portuguese, this vast town square is also known as Palace Square (Terreiro do Paço). The Royal Palace stood here before being flattened by the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake!
Belém Tower
Not only did his 16th-century harbor fortress defend the municipality of Lisbon from coastal attack, but Belém Tower was also crucial to Portugal's role in the era's Age of Discovery!
Chiado Square
Chiado's subsequent recovery after a devastating fire in 1988 has made it perhaps the wealthiest corner of the city. It's now Lisbon's most famous shopping district!
Santa Justa Lift
With the advent of electric power, Lisbon built two elevators to improve access between its hilly streets. This peculiar feat of engineering is a true relic!
Planning Your Lisbon Visit
Best time to visit?
Lisbon is lucky enough to have the warmest winters in Europe without the disadvantage of suffering from intense summer heat. Nevertheless, the subtropic coastal climate is prone to sudden bursts of rain even on its clearest days, so be warned! Going in late spring or early autumn generally means cheaper hotel prices and more manageable crowds.
How many days?
The heart of Lisbon makes a great choice for a long weekend, but many of its top attractions lie within the city's greater subregion. Top day trips include Belém, Sintra, Fátima, and Cascais, with many more besides. Each will need at least an entire day to see, if not two.
How to get from Lisbon airport to the city?
Though Lisbon is cheap by the standards of most European capitals, getting one of the cabs waiting outside the airport can be expensive. If you're traveling somewhere central without much luggage, it's undoubtedly cheaper and easier to take the metro. It should only take about 25 minutes to the city center.
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What people are saying about Lisbon
A must see with slight improvement of the service
It was fascinating what we saw during the tour. Sintra is beautiful small town with narrow streets and nice shops. Castles are beautiful, especially Quinta de Regaleira with all its surrounding. Capo da Roca is magic, you can see the power of the ocean, and beautiful lighthouse. Cascais is nice Mediterranian town. All in all this tour is a must if you are in Portugal or Lisbon. The only thing that I didn't like is that it was said that the tour will be in English, but the gentleman who was our guide was a driver at same time, speaking in Italian (because a couple from Italy) and English (for the rest of us, five people). The gentleman, that was our guide, is a great guy, but it is not possible to be fully dedicated to tourists if you are thinking where to park a mini-van, to get out of a traffic jam or so. Additionaly, we could hear more about places we visited if the tour was in one language, as it was stated in the reservation.
Ticket did not deliver what it promised.
We purchased a fast track, skip the line ticket online. However, the admission process gave us no advantage over those who needed to buy tickets. The lines, those with tickets and those without tickets, alternated. We waited a long time wow people without tickets were admitted. Our skip the line tickets should have given us and advantage. Those who were buying tickets should have returned to take their place in our line. Rather, they had immediate access upon purchase of their tickets at the tower ticket window.
Amazing experience with an excellent guide!
Alex was a great guide! Her approach is very personable. She spent enough time with us To explain the history behind all of the places we got to see without being overbearing. We had enough time on our own to explore and enjoy the sights. Her general knowledge of the area was great and insightful. Looking forward to doing more tours with her!
Paulo was a great and made sure we had an amazing outing!
The outing was great. It was good to get out of Lisbon and visit some different places. Paulo was a wonderful guide, getting the group to the various locations before the crowds and providing interesting/helpful information throughout the tour.
An excellent trip: Portuguese history, coast and excellent ice cream!
This was a great trip combining interesting Portuguese history with beautiful coastline and excellent food at recommended restaurant in Sintra and ice cream in Cascais!

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The troubled Norwich Ice Rink is closed for the second time in three months after the failure of a chiller that recently underwent a $70,000 repair.
The troubled Norwich Ice Rink is closed for the second time in three months after the failure of a chiller that recently underwent a $70,000 repair.
Ice Rink Authority chairman Peter Desaulniers said the facility will be closed until the unit is fixed or replaced, which could be a long as three months.
He said it could cost as much as $15,000 to fix the system that regulates temperatures within the rink.
During an emergency meeting of the authority on Tuesday night, members authorized spending up to $4,000 on a "tear down and evaluation" to diagnose what caused the equipment to give out.
Information on the closure was posted on several websites, including the rink's and the city's.
Once the system is reviewed, officials will have to decide on a course of action to get the rink running again.
Options include closing the rink down through August to install a new system or renting a chiller at a cost of more than $50,000.
Ultimately, it will be up to the City Council to take action, Corporation Counsel Michael Driscoll said.
"The council would have to be involved on a decision of significant expense to refit or replace the system," he told the authority on Tuesday.
Norwich owns the property where the rink is located.
Desaulniers said rink administrative assistant Shannon Fitzgerald heard "high level alarms" coming from the chiller room late Monday afternoon, prompting her and maintenance supervisor William Christian to shut the unit down.
A preliminary analysis suggests the chiller ruptured one of the more than 350 tubes that comprises it, releasing between 200 and 300 gallons of fluid.
Authority member JoAnn Beghul said she wouldn't know how to vote until the problem is diagnosed. "As much as I would like to be quick and economical, this is a decision for the next 15 to 20 years," she said.
Desaulniers agreed.
"We kind of have to hedge what we're going to do and hope we make a good, calculated judgment once we see the system down and examine it," he said. "As long as we can show the public that we're doing due diligence and not costing them money, we'll be OK."
The city is soliciting bids from engineering firms to replace its 17-year-old ammonia brine based chiller. Those proposals are due to City Purchasing Agent William Block by 3 p.m. today.
As of Tuesday afternoon, two applications have been submitted, Block said, though he expects several more to arrive before the deadline.
According to estimates provided Tuesday, if the rink remains closed through August, lost revenue is estimated at $108,355.
Details of the application describe the existing Lewis Cimco ammonia brine unit as "near the end of its functional life." The authority is open to proposals that rely on alternative energy sources for power as well as "traditional systems," according to the application.
Paul Gambardella, branch manager for Cimco's New England region, said the company has ice rink refrigeration systems in about 50 facilities across Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont. Units like the one in Norwich could last up to "50 years or more with good maintenance," Gambardella said. "Fifteen to 17 years is really not a long time for these systems."
Ashley Foy, president of the Norwich Figure Skating Club and director of the rink's ice skating program, called the breakdown unfortunate.
"I'm pretty shocked this happened again so soon," she said.
Robert Casagrande of Groton, vice president of Southeastern Connecticut Youth Hockey, said league play doesn't start until October, so a prolonged closure shouldn't affect the season.
As a patron, he said he agreed with the authority's decision to repair the chiller after February's incident.
"At this point, you tried the quick fix so it might be better to fix it once and for all because of the age," he said.
City Accountant Anthony Madeira said last week the rink lost more than $142,000 in combined revenue and expenses after a Feb. 13 ammonia leak that shut down the site for a month and led to the resignation of then rink director Mia Sanca, who asserts her departure came under duress.
Since opening in 1995, the rink has never turned a profit.
City Manager Alan Bergren is recommending an end to a $27,000 annual transfer to the facility's general fund from city coffers.
To date, the rink is $328,296 in debt to the city.


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Booth, Claire
Claire Booth is rapidly establishing an international reputation both in opera and in concert, in repertoire ranging from the operas of Handel and Mozart to 20th- and 21st-century scores. Recent successes include the world premiere of Oliver Knussen's Requiem: Songs for Sue, written for her and conducted by the composer with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the BBC Proms.
Claire Booth studied Modern History at Oxford and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, English National Opera Studio's Baylis Programme, and at the National Opera Studio; she has been awarded prizes including a Susan Chilcott Foundation Scholarship, the Worshipful Company of Musician's Silver Medal and the Harold Rosenthal Award. She has also been a finalist in both the 2003 Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal Competition and the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
She made her debuts at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh and Lucerne International Festivals, performing Knussen, John Adams, and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire conducted by Oliver Knussen, Edward Gardner and Pierre Boulez respectively. She performs regularly with the BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Intercontemporain working with Edward Gardner, Zsolt Nagy, Jonathan Nott, Martyn Brabbins, Pierre-André Valade and Oliver Knussen. She has appeared on Radio 2, Radio 3 and BBC 4 in broadcasts from the Aldeburgh Festival, the BBC Proms and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's studio concert seasons.
In the field of baroque and classical music she has performed on many of the leading European stages, and has given concerts with The King's Consort, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Opera, the Early Opera Company and the Classical Opera Company. Other operatic performances include 1st Niece in Opera North's critically acclaimed production of Peter Grimes, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, also for Opera North, and roles for New Chamber Opera.
As a recitalist she made her debut at the Park Lane Group series at the Purcell Room in 2001 singing works by Oliver Knussen and Elliott Carter and has since given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Cheltenham Festival with her regular accompanist Ryan Wigglesworth. She performed for the Walton Foundation at La Mortella in Ischia with Iain Burnside, and at St. John Smith's Square with Malcolm Martineau.


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Calling all Community Foundations!
In the United States, community foundations serve tens of thousands of people, administer more than $49 billion in charitable funds, and address the core concerns of more than 725 communities and regions.
Not only are these community-based foundations a valuable sources of local wealth held in perpetuity, they're led by a local board of trustees and staff that provide in-depth knowledge of community challenges, opportunities, and broader resources. These foundation's provide leadership on local issues while guiding donors toward investing in local solutions that make a real difference.
Here at HUD, we understand that when it comes to tackling some of our toughest community development and affordable housing challenges, we can't go it alone. We know that leveraging public investments with the power of community-based foundations is the best way produce real results.
We're excited to launch the HUD Secretary's Award for Community Foundations. Teaming up with the Council on Foundations, we hope this award will showcase outstanding examples of partnerships between the philanthropic and public sectors. The goal is to recognize model partnerships and the impact they have on the quality of life for residents. Listen to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan's call for nominations!
The Council will select a total of 10 community foundations, one each in the 10 HUD-defined regions of the country. Read more about how to apply.
Want to share how your community foundation has helped solve challenges where others seem to struggle? Want to showcase how local leaders have come together through a long-standing commitment to make your neighborhood a better place to live, learn, and work? We think partnerships between community foundations and public agencies are happening throughout the country, and we want to hear about it.
If you have questions or need additional information, contact the Council's Public-Philanthropic Partnership Initiative or call 703-879-0688). The Council on Foundations must receive completed PDF form/application via e-mail and any accompanying materials by 11:59 pm (Pacific) Friday, May 11, 2012.
Ana Marie Argilagos is the deputy assistant secretary for international and philanthropic innovation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of International and Philanthropic Innovation. This post originally appeared on HUD's blog, The HUDle.


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Melges 24 World Championships
Strong winds keep Melges 24 crews ashore
A honking northerly breeze and an outdoor temperature of 40 degrees have meant a subdued start to the Gill Melges 24 World Championship 2014 at Geelong in Victoria, Australia.
A practice race was scheduled for this afternoon, but winds of 28 knots gusting to 35 are well above the class upper limit. At the skippers briefing this morning at the host club, the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, all of the 26 teams opted to remain ashore.
An AP/A flag signalling no more racing today is flying at the club.
Morning activities included registration and crew weigh-ins then a welcome by the class championship coordinator and PRO Hank Stuart and the chance to hear from the international jury chair and the measurer who spot checks sails, keels, masts and crew weight.
These one-design sports boats come from the same mould build and they are bound by strict rules so they are deemed equal. Then it comes down to the crew racing them.
Fifteen of the Melges teams considered the best in the world are at Geelong vying for the prestigious crown.
Close to half of the starting list of 26 has travelled from far afield - Germany, Italy, Japan, USA, Canada and Switzerland to join 16 national teams.
International Melges 24 Class Association president Riccardo Simoneschi, skipper of the Melges 24 Audi, says Geelong is in for a great show in the coming five days.
The fleet is a good size for this challenge, the top 15 boats in the world are here and the competition will be very high level, said Simoneschi this morning.
It will be exciting and a great show. Im very much looking forward to tomorrow; it will be a big battle from beginning to end.
Racing is scheduled to start tomorrow, Wednesday 29th January 2014, with a 1330hrs warning signal.
Up to 12 races will be conducted over five days and there will be two sets of results published each afternoon, overall results and separate results for the Corinthian Melges 24s who are racing with a full amateur crew.
Harry Melges and his Star crew executed the perfect tune-up to the world title, winning the Gill Melges 24 Australian Open Nationals that wrapped up on Sunday as part of the Festival of Sails penultimate day.
Some teams are braving the extreme heat and wind and launching at the club this afternoon, others are still on the hardstand rubbing any remaining residue off these one-design sports boats to make them as slippery as possible.
Class founders and world championship candidates Harry Melges and Andy Burdick will share their wisdom at a 1700hrs technical clinic at the RGYC prior to the official world championship welcome function that will be attended by competitors and special guests including the Hon. Hugh Delahunty Minister Sport and Recreation Victoria.
A southerly change is due this afternoon and tomorrows temperature is likely to be a more comfortable 23 degrees, along with an untroublesome 12 knot southerly breeze.
Geelong last hosted a sailing world championship at least 20 years ago. The Victorian government and City of Greater Geelong have partnered with the RGYC and event sponsor Gill to deliver the second major event for Geelong in as many weeks with the Festival of Sails finishing yesterday.
We are honoured to be the first city outside the northern hemisphere to host the Melges 24 World Championship, City of Greater Geelong Mayor Darryn Lyons said.
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Hayek's guidance for western politicians on MidEast
Jaundiced western electorates seem to have a clearer appreciation than their leaders of our intellectual and political weakness over the MidEast
In his final book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, Freidrich von Hayek wrote that: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design".
Few people are more in need of one of Hayek's lessons than western politicians.
Nearly two and half years ago civil unrest broke out in a number of Middle Eastern countries. An excitable western media, this generation of journalists eager for its own Fall of the Berlin Wall, soon christened it the 'Arab Spring'.
How misguided this characterisation was quickly became apparent. Whereas the Prague Spring of 1968 had actually been about freedom the 'Arab Spring' saw unpleasant secular regimes elbowed aside only to be replaced with at least as unpleasant Islamist regimes.
Every use of the phrase 'Arab Spring' became an insult to those Czechs and Slovaks who had risked their lives for freedom. Eventually even the credulous journalists who had coined the phrase stopped using it.
While the regimes in Libya and Egypt quickly collapsed, the one in Syria put up a fight. A civil war broke out and settled into a bloody stalemate. On one side are the relatively secular, bloodthirsty Ba'athists led by Bashar Assad, on the other are the equally bloodthirsty Islamist; Al Qaeda inspired rebels.
There are deeper currents swirling in Syria. Assad and his Shia followers (as well as the non-Muslims who back him fearing the fate of their co-religionists in places like Morsi's Islamised Egypt) are on opposite sides from the Sunni rebels of a schism that divides the Muslim world as the Thirty Years War did the Christian world.
Behind them, on either side, stand the Muslim world's great Sunni power, Saudi Arabia; and its leading Shia power, Iran.
Of these two contending sides in the civil war in Islam, it is not immediately clear that we should be celebrating the victory of militant Sunnis. It is even less clear that we ought to be intervening to ensure it. Nevertheless, that is what we now appear to be drifting towards in Syria.
It is happening with a notable lack of enthusiasm in the west. When Britain went to war with Russia in 1854 a song became popular in music halls which went:
We don't want to fight but by jingo if we do,
We've got the ships,
We've got the men,
We've got the money too
There is no such excitement now. Jaundiced western electorates seem to have a clearer appreciation than their leaders of the fact that in 2013 we have neither the ships, men, nor money for this adventure.
But politicians in the west have incredible faith in their own power. They are constructivist rationalists in the tradition of Descartes, possessed of the belief that with the judicious application of their power they can construct an optimal social order.
Armed with this belief David Cameron and Barack Obama appear to believe they can topple Assad, replace him with Syria's version of Herman van Rompuy, and watch the country turn into West Germany.
This was the central fallacy of neo-conservatism. Contrary to Hayek, who believed that successful social orders emerge, neo-cons believed that order could be imposed or consciously constructed.
Despite the evidence of the last few years, our leaders' Cartesian faith appears unshaken. There is a very real danger that in striving for an unattainable optimal solution they end up landing us with a situation which is worse than we have now.
John Phelan is a Contributing Editor for The Commentator and a Fellow at the Cobden Centre. He has also written for City AM and the Wall Street Journal Europe. He blogs at Manchester Liberal and Tweets @TheBoyPhelan
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A week ago Tuesday I could not believe it was time to go to Comic Con, just as I can't believe it's over already. The event seems to exist in Brigadoon time. Like every year past, this one was fun and overwhelming -- crowds, costumes, excited fans, the usual spectacle. But the real business of Comic Con happens at the dinners and hanging out afterwards. It was one of the more productive conventions I've been to in a long while. (I think that had something to do with making an effort to keep dinners down to less than 20.) Lots of ideas afloat. Some will happen and some are pie-in-the-sky. It'll be fun to figure out which is which over the the next year.
Day 3ish.
Days 4 and beyond
...but for a quick run-down of some run-ins:
The first order of business was to get over the resentment that Greg's luggage got to go to San Diego via Ireland and I didn't.
Brom was showing off an advance copy of his novel The Child Thief, a very dark retelling of Peter Pan. It will include a number of black and white and color illustrations. He had a few originals on hand which were stunning, needles to say. There is a soft luminosity about Brom's work that is so worth making an effort to see in in the flesh.
Stephan Martiniere and Greg Manchess will be collaborating on two Tor.com stories. I can't wait to see what comes of combining their two painterly, yet very different processes. We'll see what comes of it in late fall.
At one point I found myself standing next to Anders from Battlestar Galactica. He may have been the least interesting character on the show but at two feet away, he's not the worst thing you can be looking.
Donato Giancola, Rick Berry, and Greg Manchess all dd demos at the Spectrum booth. Unfortunately my duties at the Tor booth kept me away from most of these but I did grab a few shoots. Demo flickr set here. One minute of Greg video below.
Tor booth duty consisted of saying, "November 3rd, Gathering Storm will be out November 3rd." bout once every 16.5 seconds. At least it was a place to sit down for a while.
Of course my main concern is looking for and catching up with artists. Too many to mention here.
It was also great to meet up with other industry peoples. I quick hello from Claire Howlett at Imagine FX might lead to some fun article possibilities. I met Shawn Speakman from Del Rey/Suvudu, who said "I love you" so convincingly it gave me a badly needed reboot to the evening. Shawn did a much better job at reporting art things than I did, witness: not one, but two, Todd Lockwood interviews. Of course it's always great to meet up with Lou Anders from Pyr, Jeremy Lassen from Night Shade, Alan Lynch from Alan Lynch Artists.
I met Kevin Eastman for a nanosecond - he gave Greg a big hug and seems like a sweetheart.
Meeting my favorite Tor.com blogger, Jason Henninger, was definitely a highlight. He's the kind of blogger that I'll read no matter what the topic -- he's funny, enlightening, and bit mindboggling, usually all at once.
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Bungee jumping. There was bungee jumping. More like enhanced trampoline-ing, but still.
Lots of late night talking and portfolio reviewing at the Westin. I lasted all of .3 seconds in two arm wrestles with Rebbecca Guay. (That's .3 seconds combined.) I missed most of Charles Vess' lecture, which made me sad, but then we had a lovely bay-side dinner so I can't feel too sorry for myself. For some reason being around Charles is calming amidst all that chaos.
And...and....well, the fun stuff will come out as plans pan out (or don't.) Give me another week to catch up on work and sleep and I'll start looking forward to next year.
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Nine years after the attack on the World Trade Center, which killed almost 3,000 people, we are faced with a new 9/11 controversy- whether a huge mosque and cultural center should be built close to the W.T.C. site.
On the one side, there are those who say 'Absolutely Yes', citing our historic right to freedom of religion, while others say 'Certainly Not' (and want it moved away- or never built at all) out of respect for the families of those innocent people victimized by terrorism.
There is a case to be made for both points of view, but I believe both the proponents and opponents of the mosque have ignored the basic issue: the future safety of New Yorkers.
Just as the present construction of the Freedom Tower is just stupid, only a short distance from West Street (where a terrorist and/or lunatic could blow up a truck full of explosives, or steal a plane to crash into the future tower), building the mosque will be a red flag to all sorts of crazies wanting revenge for 9/11 or some future tragedy or attacked.
We should allow nothing to make New York City even more dangerous to those who live and work here. Since one of the two lots the mosque wants to use is reportedly under city control Mayor Bloomberg should Just Say No and make New York City residents and workers a little more safe in the years to come, instead of gambling with thousands of lives.
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Artists' Reception: Thursday, October 9, 6 – 8 PM
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum
One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street), New York
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum will present The Art of Aging, an international exhibition of works by 82 contemporary artists from North America, Israel, and England, from September 2, 2003 through June 25, 2004. Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, fiber, mixed media, and video, the artists explore the diverse aspects of aging, including creativity and vitality, memory, anxiety, wisdom, physical change, loss, intergenerational interaction, responsibility, and optimism.
Featured artists include Sigmund Abeles, Eleanor Antin, Samuel Bak, Hyman Bloom, Max Ferguson, Larry Fink, Audrey Flack, Ben Katchor, Ibram Lassaw, Elaine Reichek, Jonathan Santlofer, Ivan Schwebel, George Segal, Kiki Smith, Joan Snyder, Art Spiegelman, Ruth Weisberg, and Barbara Zucker.
The exhibition explores the ways in which aging is a process that begins with birth – as a lifelong journey affecting the dynamics of human relationships, creativity, memory, continuity, and growth. Jewish text sources are full of references to values intrinsic to the aging process, from the respect attendant to one's elders, honor for one's parents, forty as the age of understanding, fifty as the age of counsel, the celebration of wisdom at age sixty, the celebration of strength at the age of eighty, and intergenerational and familial responsibilities.
"Our goal is to engage the larger public in reflecting on the Jewish values attendant to the aging process and in finding meaning in the universal aspects of life's journey as it impacts on each of our own lives, our families, and our communities," notes Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Director. "Moreover, this exhibition symbolizes the shared values and commitments of Israeli and North America Jewry in affirming the vitality of the human spirit."
"The Art of Aging focuses on aging as a continuum," Curator Laura Kruger notes. "It includes the view of young artists experiencing the first recognition of this transformation. It includes metaphors for the moments that are too emotional to visualize. It includes the exuberance and zest that maturity affords us. It includes the many aspects of long memories and the subtle, tragic diminutions of memory. It balances anxiety and loss of control with wisdom, continuity, and generous relationships. It offers creativity and choice as the antidote to forced redundancy and loneliness. We view, through the artist's vision, death as an evolving process, a slow decline. Sorrow is mitigated by memory; images of fading nature, darkness falling, and clouds gathering convey the melancholy reflections of a once vibrant life. Each of the works in this exhibition captures the vibrancy of life lived to its fullest, even as it seemingly slows down."
"The inclusion of works by gifted artists expressing themselves through humor," she adds, "illuminates the role of humor as the cushion to ease the vicissitudes of aging -- the perfect astringent for maudlin thoughts."
The Art of Aging was developed in conjunction with an exhibition, Golden Aging (The Third Color), organized by curator Ayana Friedman for the JDC-Eshel (The Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel), presented in Jerusalem in 2000, and represented in this exhibition through the works of 13 Israeli artists. With the addition of 70 artists from North America and England, curated by Laura Kruger, this exhibition amplifies the artistic dialogue in the context of significant demographical shifts in the increasingly aging Jewish populations in the United States, Israel, and Europe.
This exhibition is co-sponsored by the HUC-JIR Museum and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and JDC-Eshel (The Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel), with the generous support of UJA-Federation of New York.
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion presents the creativity of artists of all faiths exploring Jewish identity, history, and experience. By encouraging contemporary artists to illuminate issues of faith and culture, we hope to foster a deeper appreciation of Jewish heritage and build bridges of multi-ethnic and interfaith understanding.
JDC is the active, on-the-ground expert reaching out to Jewish communities in distress and working to enhance Jewish lives and Jewish life in Israel and around the world. Since 1914, JDC has brought care, compassion, and help to millions, and it has had a presence at one time or another in over 85 countries.
JDC-Eshel, the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel, is a partnership of JDC and a consortium of Israeli government ministries. JDC-ESHEL is the leader in developing services and facilities for all elderly Israelis; it helps veteran Israelis as well as the most recent immigrants, Jews as well as Arabs.
Museum Hours: Mondays–Thursdays, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM; Fridays, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Selected Sundays, 10:00 AM–2:00 PM, September 14; October 19; November 2, 23; December 14; January 11, 25; February 8, 22; March 28; April 4, 25; May 2
Information/Tours: (212) 824–2205 www.huc.edu/museum/ny
Admission: Free, Photo ID Required
Admission free; photo ID required
An Evening with Anita Diamant
Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 PM
Join Anita Diamant for a reading and celebration of the publication of her new book, Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith – a book of personal essays reflecting the shape of a life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of the Jewish community.
Climbing Your Family Tree
Sunday, November 2 at 2:00 PM
A workshop for those seeking to chart family history and memory through an introduction to Jewish geneaology and methodologies specific to Jewish families, led by Debra Braverman, a professional genealogist and past officer of the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York.
Lilith Magazine's Music Celebration
Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 PM
A woman's take on Jewish heritage and aging, this evening of Jewish women's music presents cabaret singer Leslie Hollis, plus composer Mira J. Spektor and lyricist June Siegel's mini-musical "Give Me Time," feminist klezmer music, and more.
A Conversation Between the Artist and the Curator
Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00 PM
Join artist Joan Snyder and Jewish Museum curator Norman Kleeblatt as they talk about creativity, identity, and new forms of expression in contemporary art, sponsored by THEA (The House of Elder Artists).
To Everything There is a Season
Wednesday, December 10 at 7:00 PM
Join Dr. Leonard S. Kravitz and Dr. Kerry M. Olitzky in study and discussion of the wisdom literature of the Book of Ecclesiastes: Chapter 12, providing new perspectives on life and aging as drawn from their new book, Kohelet: A Modern Commentary on Ecclesiastes (UAHC Press).
An Evening of Film
Thursday, March 4, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Into the Fire: American Women In the Spanish Civil War
Julia Newman, producer and director
A film about the more than 2700 women who fought in the Spanish Civil War, the first major battle against Fascism.
Sid at 90
Howard Weinberg, producer and director
A portrait of rare perseverance that celebrates the pure love of performance that keeps an actor going, gig to gig, in spite of hard times, heartbreak, and virtual obscurity.
Celebration of Wisdom at 60 - Simchat Chochmah Workshop
Sunday, March 28, 1:00-4:00 PM
Peter Pitzele and Arthur Strimling will facilitate a workshop exploring the ways in which we can celebrate the arrival of age 60, the Age of Wisdom. This workshop will ask how we can move through negative images and stereotypes of aging to embrace the wisdom, mastery, and productivity that can only come with time.
Yom Hashoah Lecture
Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted The Nazis
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00-8:00 PM
Daniel Silver presents the unique story of the Berlin Jewish Hospital, which continued to function under the Nazis and was able to rescue the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. This book recounts the lives of Jews who lived and worked there, offers insight into their survival, and investigates the factors that contributed to the hospital's continued existence during the destruction of European Jewry.
Daniel Silver has served as general counsel to the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
New Stories, New Poems, and the Ancient Art of Healing
The Inaugural Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professorship in Human Relations and Counseling Lecture
Rabbi William Cutter, Ph. D
Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30 PM
Rabbi William Cutter is Director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Human Relations and Counseling, Professor of Education and Modern Hebrew Literature, and Lecturer in Chaplaincy at HUC-JIR/LA. He has taught at the College-Institute since 1965, and has served as the Assistant Dean and Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education, which he helped found in 1970. Rabbi Cutter received his A.B. Degree from Yale University in 1959 and was ordained at the HUC-JIR in 1965. His current research concentrates on the development of modern Hebrew literature at the turn of the century and the ideological place of the Hebrew language in modern Judaism. He serves on the advisory board to the UCLA Medical Center Department of Spiritual Care and supervises the chaplaincy training of the students at HUC-JIR/LA.
The Art of Aging: Cultural Representations
A Seminar for Professionals and Lay Leaders
Thursday, April 29, 3:00-6:00 PM
Healthcare and social service agency professionals, clergy, artists, and the general public are invited to explore creativity and the aging process.
Rabbi Richard Address, D. Min., Director of Department of Jewish Family Concerns, Union for Reform Judaism (formerly UAHC)
Nancy Berman, Director Emerita, HUC-JIR Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
Dr. William Cutter, Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Professor of Human Relations and Counseling, HUC-JIR/LA
Bel Kaufman, Author of Up the Down Staircase; Grand-daughter of Sholom Aleichem
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, Clinical Director, Jack and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling, HUC-JIR/NY
Cosponsored by The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles; and UJA-Federation of New York Caring Commission
Staged Reading of a New Play
Eighty-Three Years
Thursday, May 6, 7:00-9:00 PM
Rabbi Laura Katz Braun, playwright
Heidi Durrow, director
About a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a baby without a name…a new play that explores the intergenerational relationships within a Jewish family at vastly different points of the human life cycle, as both women struggle to imbue their lives with meaning.
The Cartoons of Aging
Wednesday, June 30 at 7:00 PM
Join cartoonists from The Art of Aging exhibition: Mort Gerberg, Samuel H. Gross, Sydney Harris, Ben Katchor, Paul Peter Porges, and Art Spiegelman, in a lively discussion of their work. Moderator: Arie Kaplan, comedy writer
Co-sponsored by Reform Judaism Magazine
Catalog and photographs available on request.
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Following the Mt. Gox collapse, an unsavory association with Silk Road and the arrest of several exchange operators, several early companies built around Bitcoin have raised the fear factor for crypto-currencies. In this session recorded at the Bitcoin4iGaming Conference find out why these disasters occurred, what is being done to prevent future catastrophes and assess the real risk levels for businesses accepting bitcoin and altcoins for your iGaming business.
While most investors speculate on Bitcoin's daily price, few have taken a look at the long-term viability of Bitcoin. This panel recorded at the Bitcoin4iGaming Conference asks Oxford Economist Jonathan Levin and Bitcoin Mega-Miner Jez San to explain their rationale behind their long-term positions in non-fiat crypto currencies.


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VICTORIA — Shortly before 5 a.m. on election day, the Adrian Dix campaign bus pulled up to the venerable Naam restaurant in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood, the final stop but two on a gruelling 24-hour blitz of the province.
Not a heavily attended event, given the hour. But the dutiful New Democratic Party folk who turned out to greet Dix that morning included one of his early mentors, Ian Waddell.
Former federal member of Parliament, former provincial MLA and cabinet minister. And the kind of ex-politician who even in retirement, can summon a laugh line at an hour when most people are groggy with sleep or passed out entirely.
Waddell has lately been dabbling in filmmaking. His current production is a documentary on why young people don't vote — a prophetic theme for New Democrats this election, as it turned out — but in chatting with me, he made a joke of it, saying the new career has unintended benefits in social gatherings.
Tell people at parties that you held elected office — which he did for the better part of 20 years — or that you are a lawyer — his career before that — and they can't get away from you fast enough. Tell them you make movies and they want details, details.
Waddell attended the Dix campaign breakfast on May 14 because he and the NDP leader go way, way back.
Dix got his serious start in politics with Waddell, working on one of his successful campaigns for Parliament, then joining him in Ottawa as an aide. He went on to manage the MP's 1989 bid for the party leadership and after the bid fell well short of winning on the first ballot, it fell to the twentysomething campaign manager to break the news to the 47-year-old candidate that it was all over.
"He takes me behind the scenes at the convention and says, 'You've got to drop out'," as Waddell recounted the exchange to my colleague Jonathan Fowlie earlier this year.
Waddell: "Why? I'm doing OK." Dix: "No. You're dropping out. You're going to go down." Sobered by the advice, Waddell quit the race.
In the mid-1990s, they both ended up serving Premier Glen Clark, Dix as chief of staff, Waddell (who'd lost his federal seat) as MLA and cabinet minister.
Later still, when Dix — having left the party backrooms for the retail side of politics — sought the provincial leadership, Waddell was among the prominent New Democrats who lined up behind him.
"He'll be an interesting premier," Waddell predicted in that interview with The Vancouver Sun earlier this year. "He's very detailed, smart, thorough ... He's not flashy but he's a hell of a worker and he's got good judgment."
So it must have been painful for Dix to read Waddell's verdict on the 2013 election campaign, published this week on the Tyee website. Among the many soul-searching post-mortems from New Democrats of late, Waddell's is one of the most withering.
He does tip his hat to Dix's good qualities: "An intelligent leader who worked tirelessly to regenerate the party."
But that is merely the setup for this: "The NDP's approach was reminiscent of the Maple Leafs in their last period in the playoffs this past spring, in which they chose just to coast and hope for the best. Coincidentally, on television in B.C. that period was full of Liberal attack ads. Who could ever forget the weather-vane commercial? And Adrian Dix ... played right into that strategy with his curious flip-flop on the Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal. He inexplicably gave away political currency without consulting key people in the party."
Waddell also blasted his former campaign manager's choice of managers for this year's provincial campaign: "Brian Topp, who had just come from his own weak federal leadership bid ... ran a classic federal campaign for Jack Layton, and this was ill-suited for the rough and tumble, unique world of B.C. politics."
Nor did Waddell have anything good to say about the content of the campaign: "It must also be said that the NDP, as part of its laid-back strategy, offered a pretty tepid policy platform. One step at a time, the campaign slogan said, doing what? More skills training! ... the NDP did not have any fresh, feasible alternatives of its own. "
The summing up: "Forced to reflect, NDP members and supporters are starting to own up to their mistakes. Eventually, they will conclude that we defeated ourselves. Yes, Christy Clark fought a great campaign. But, in the end, we literally gave her the victory."
Looking ahead, Waddell doesn't leave much doubt about what his former aide should do next: "If Adrian Dix decides to step down as leader at its convention in November, the party should choose a respected interim leader who does not intend to run for the leadership. Bruce Ralston comes to mind if he has no aspirations. Then, in 2015, the B.C. NDP should run a wide-open leadership race looking to a new generation of candidates."
As noted, he's not alone in his opinion. Indeed, on the last day of the recent legislature session, Dix was asked in a media scrum if amid all the voices calling publicly for him to step down, he could cite any prominent New Democrats who were urging him to stay.
None sprang to mind, apparently, for he didn't supply even one name.


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Flashes of Brilliance
Somewhere in between chasing wild geese and my own tail I seem to have a couple of spare minutes in which to write a brief update. As thunder rumbles outside I sit here, awake only from coffee and adrenalin fumes as all other power sources were used up some time ago. I was thinking last night of writing a post about how amazing it was that even though Beijing is supposed to be so polluted I've been remarkably healthy these last eight months. How ironic then that I sit here slightly feverish sipping on vile TCM. All in the line of work however.
Within a matter of minutes the sky has turned from a misty grey to a browny black and there's constant lightning forking across the city - I love thunderstorms and this is a goodie! There may be a slightly soggy Japanese student wishing he'd taken my advice. More on that shortly.
Perhaps the one in Beijing isn't quite so spectacular in terms of contrast but to put picture to theme, here's an utterly spectacular photo of a supercell.
Of late I've been keeping to my promise and have been going in pain-staking detail through the notes from the summer school which preceded Strings. I've also made a commitment in an attempt to kill two birds with one stone (or it may be a klein bottle). The ITP is not a teaching university so there are no undergraduates. This means that I'm not getting any teaching experience (apart from English corner which though very enjoyable is more a free discussion session chaired by me with the occasional quiz that I throw in). However, there are occasionally courses run by the professors on various topics, many of which I would love to attend if they were not almost all in Chinese. So, I've decided to take the matter into my own hands and offered to teach a group of students a course on geometry, topology and physics (following Nakahara) which will not only force me to get some teaching experience but it will also force me to get a deeper knowledge of the subject (I feel pretty happy with most of the book already but it'll be good to be forced not only to understand it myself but also to have to explain it to others - usually the best test as to whether you really do understand something).
So, come September I hope to teach a very understanding class a topic with which I only have a passing knowledge. The subject of the book I mentioned is something which is used as the first language of string theory but for the work I've done in the past, most of it is unnecessary. Should be fun!
Anyway, so that's a few months off yet. For now I have office company. When I was in Japan a few months ago I spoke with a PhD student about some of my ideas. We kept in contact and I arranged a visit for him to come to the ITP for a couple of weeks so we could talk more extensively and try and start up a collaboration. Through various crossed wires I was expecting to get some funding for this though that has fallen through and so we're funding this trip ourselves (or at least out of my travel grant). Not the best situation but if we can get some good work done then it will be well worth it. Tatsuya arrived this afternoon from the Yukawa institute via Osaka, and we quickly got down to discussing what work we would be doing together. After some dinner he asked if rain was imminent to which I replied, looking wisely at the clouds, that it was unlikely for a couple of hours. I asked if he wanted me to walk him back to the hotel but he insisted that he knew the way and would be absolutely fine. The difference between a ten and fifteen minute walk in this case is rather important as somewhere between those time frames the heavens decided that I didn't know my cumulonimbus from my streptococcus and set a deluge on the city. There's a moral to this tale though I wouldn't trust me on what it is.
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Well, peeps, after fostering this latest little guy for 2 months and falling head over heels, I've decided to keep Chance. I was determined to find his perfect "forever home", but that just never happened. Every time I got a request for more info about him, or received an application, my heart would speed up and I'd start sweating. (OK, there are for sure some hot flashes mixed in there, but, you know what I'm sayin'…)
I did take him to a Petsmart adoption event, held on behalf of the awesome rescue group I volunteer with-Animal Action Rescue-check them out!–but every time I put him in the crate, he cried and barked and became just a big distraction. Then, on the few occasions that anybody actually picked him up, I just wanted to tell them what an awful little dog he was. He's not, of course, but surely that would turn them away.
So after countless hours of discussions with self, I realized that continuing to bring strange, temporary dogs into my household was not emotionally healthy for my 12-year old dog Kismet. Nothing to do with me, Nope. Nada. (yeah, right).
So I started "grooming" him to be our dog. I took him to the lake, where he promptly fell in twice and nearly drowned. HK had to jump in in his clothes once to fish him out from under the dock. So he got this little orange life jacket, and now, 2 weeks later, we can't keep him OUT of the lake! Hope you enjoy his little video, along w/ Kismet and Roxie-his new siblings.
I'll continue to be active in animal rescue. I have volunteered to transport dogs (see pup my ride ) and make donations as well as pet food drives, but now I know that I am just not cut out for fostering. (At least not right now).
Oh, did I mention that "Good Dogs Doing Good", the book that I have a story published in, is doing very well? Check it out! WOOF!


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A suggestion that aerial application of pesticides is inherently unsafe around bee colonies is countered by Scott Bretthauer, Ph.D., Extension specialist, application technology, University of Illinois. Bretthauer responded with a letter to the editor after reading a short item on the "Profit Tips page of the June issue of AgProfessional magazine.
Of the six tips for "Ways applicators can protect honey bees, Bretthauer objected to the wording of tip number five which paraphrased Oregon State University suggestions for applying pesticides around honey bees. The tip as printed in the magazine was: "Ground application generally is less hazardous than aerial application. During aerial application, do not turn the aircraft or transport materials across blooming fields.
Below are the extensive comments by Bretthauer; all make sense and we appreciate him providing them:
As an Extension specialist in application technology who works with both aerial and ground applications, I would like to offer the following comments to the short article titled "Ways applicators can protect honey bees on page 14 of the June 2012 issue of AgProfessional magazine.
- The point suggesting ground application is less hazardous to honey bees than aerial application is unwarranted. When conducted properly, aerial application poses no higher risk to bees than a ground application.
- It recommends that during aerial applications "do not turn the aircraft or transport materials across blooming fields. I do not believe this recommendation is justified. Agricultural aircraft are equipped with a number of devices that ensure spray is not inadvertently released outside of the target area. These include check valves on each nozzle and a suck back system that creates a vacuum when the spray system is off. In addition to these devices, aerial applicators routinely inspect their aircraft to ensure there are no leaks in the spray system.
- While the article does not mention drift, an examination of the Pacific Northwest Extension publication referenced at the bottom does state that "less drift occurs with ground application. Drift is primarily a function of droplet size, wind speed, and wind direction. It is true agricultural aircraft can be set up to have a smaller, narrower droplet spectrum than ground rigs.This is one of the reasons aerial application is more effective at applying insecticides than ground rigs. A narrow, small droplet spectrum provides good coverage and deposition, which increases the efficacy of the application. It is the smaller droplet size, however, that would increase the risk of drift, not the aircraft itself. Agricultural aircraft can be set up to provide a large, drift resistant droplet size if the application calls for it.
In terms of wind speed and wind direction, aerial application is the preferred application method because agricultural aircraft are able to make an application in a much shorter time period than ground rigs or other forms of application. If there is a narrow window of favorable wind conditions for making the application, an agricultural aircraft can likely get an application made when a ground rig would be unable to. If a section of a field needs to remain temporarily untreated because wind direction is towards an area where bees are present, it is much easier for an agricultural aircraft, due to quick ferry times and GPS/as-applied technology, to return to treat the temporary buffer zone once wind direction has shifted away from the sensitive area. Ninety-nine percent of aerial application aircraft, according to a recent National Agricultural Aviation Association survey, are equipped with GPS systems which provide precise information to the ag pilot on the entry and exit points of the field and when to engage the application procedures.
4. For a variety of reasons, including effectiveness, timeliness, and no damage to the crop, aerial application is the better method for applying insecticides. With a properly set up and operated aircraft, the hazard to bees is no greater than with a ground rig, and is probably less because of the aircraft's ability to complete applications quicker within desired weather conditions.
Having worked with aerial applicators for a number of years and having conducted a number of aerial application pattern testing clinics, I believe there are many benefits this form has over other forms of applications, and, if used correctly, has no additional risks to bees or other sensitive entities.
Scott M. Bretthauer, Ph.D.
Extension Specialist –Application Technology
University of Illinois
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering


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This month, as a part of the Foodie Pen Pals, I received a box from Heather and sent a box to Dustin.
A few weeks ago, I gave you a peek inside the box I got from Heather. Now it is finally time for the reveal!
Here's what I got:
In case you can't read all the labels, it's Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Bar-Caramel with Black Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate Almond Toffee, Dark Chocolate (filled with) Speculoos Cookie Spread, Justin's Organic Peanut Butter Cups, Artisana Pecan Butter, Jessica's Vanilla Maple Granola, Artisana Coconut Butter, and Trader Joe (Jaques) Fleur Del Sel Caramels. (Heather did say she loves Trader Joe's in her note, which, by the way, is the card with the cherries on it in the background.)
Thanks, Heather for the yumminess and for making me want to visit my local TJ's! 🙂
For Dustin, I used some of the coffee from last month's box to make brownies. I really like the idea of using something from the last box to forward on to the next one. Just a fair warning for the other foodie pen pals reading this right now.
I forgot to include the recipe in Dustin's box, so I am putting it here:
Adapted from Epicurious: (original recipe)
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 2 cups sugar
- 15 tablespoons (2 sticks minus 1 tablespoon) unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoons finely ground coffee beans
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 13x9x2-inch metal pan with nonstick spray. Combine sugar, butter, cocoa, ground coffee, and salt in large metal bowl. Place bowl over saucepan of simmering water and whisk until butter melts and ingredients are blended (texture will be grainy). Remove bowl from over water; cool mixture to lukewarm if necessary. Whisk in eggs and vanilla. Sift flour over and fold in.
Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake brownies until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool brownies in pan.
Note: the original recipe includes pecans in the brownies and a mocha frosting, but I thought the brownies were good as is.


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Cherry Almond Muffins
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min.
Makes7 muffins
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup cherry preserves, warmed
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons cold butter
- 1/3 cup chopped sliced almonds
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat the egg, sour cream and extract until smooth; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened (batter will be thick).
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla until smooth. In a saucepan over low heat, warm preserves. For topping, combine flour and sugar in a small bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in almonds.
- Fill greased jumbo muffin cups half full with batter. Divide cream cheese filling and preserves evenly among muffin cups; swirl gently. Cover with remaining batter. Sprinkle with topping.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in muffin comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.
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Nutrition Facts1 jumbo muffin: 684 calories, 36g fat (21g saturated fat), 157mg cholesterol, 496mg sodium, 80g carbohydrate (49g sugars, 2g fiber), 10g protein.
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These were wonderful! Since it was my first time making them I had some difficulty...I filled the muffin tins half full but I didn't have quite enough batter for the top. So, next time I'd fill them alittle less than half to start and take another reviews suggestion and pat the top of the muffins and pat them into a disk before I topped them. For the filling I didn't have cherry so I used strawberry preserved-it was awesome! They were wonderful muffins!
Jun 15, 2014
This is a very yummy muffin. Will definitely make it again.
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Sep 30, 2012
I have made this twice now and it is amazing. The best muffin I have ever had. Batter is almost like dough so I just pat small amount in bottom of each muffin hole, do filling, then pat out little disk of dough and place on top. It makes 9 regular size muffins. I fill to the top of hole and pile on crumbs. It does not raise much so that works perfect. Just make sure you take them out of tin after 4 or 5 minutes of cooling. I have left over cheesecake batter so each time so I make 2 little cheesecakes in the muffin tin too. These muffins are worth the extra time and effort.
Aug 26, 2012
ACTUALLY, I want to try this recipe-I never made it before, but I can gurantee that it will be good!
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Love this recipe. Also make it as a coffee cake. Awesome!
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Tejadillo Reception
Hotel Tejadillo
Tejadillo Hotel Room
Tejadillo Hotel Courtyard
Hotel Tejadillo Lobby
Tejadillo Bar
Fidel Castro, Alec Guinness & Maureen O'Hara photographed in the Cathedral Square 1959
The Hotel Tejadillo is a rather eccentric establishment, with a curious though not unpleasant layout and an even more peculiar but quite useful range of facilities. The warren-like floor plan is due to the hotel being composed of three restored Havana mansions dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The location is ideal, just round the corner from Cathedral Square, and the corner bar has tall windows facing onto San Ignacio and Tejadillo Streets. There are two courtyards; one with tables for breakfast or drinks with a large and slightly overpowering mural of colonial architecture, the other full of marvelously bushy ferns and a Yagruma tree whose vast leaves occasionally crash to the ground, startling unsuspecting bystanders. The entrance hall has tall windows, traditional colonial window grilles and fanlights, high ceilings and positively chintzy armchairs and is decorated with paintings by local artists and also with bonsai trees, which hold an inexplicable fascination for Old Havana interior designers. The staff is helpful and the hotel clean and welcoming, but it is not perhaps the best accommodation for architectural historians who may spend their holidays trying to puzzle out the establishment's surreal spatial divisions.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
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24 hour reception
Air conditioning
Breakfast - à la carte
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Daily newspapers
Elevators / lifts
Hotel was recently renovated
International cuisine
Internet on hotel's PCs
Laundry & Ironing Service
Luggage storage
Malecon max 5min walk
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Nightclub nearby
Nursery services
Old building restored
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Shoe cleaning
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Shops max 2min walk
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
Tours & tourist information desk
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 110/120
The 30 standard rooms at the Tejadillo tend to be generously sized and most of those which can be converted to triples are enormous and contain fully equipped kitchen units. They have well-made faux Colonial furniture mixed with modern wrought iron pieces. Large windows give excellent views of the street below. The bathrooms are small and tend to be a bit dimly lit, but are clean and functional. Half of the rooms have matrimonial beds and the other half are twin bedded.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Balcony (subject to availability)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Double bed
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
King size bed
Kitchen with cooking hob, fridge, sink etc
Minibar / Fridge
Satellite TV
Twin beds
There are only 2 Junior Suites at the hotel. Both are very spacious.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Balcony (subject to availability)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
Kitchen with cooking hob, fridge, sink etc
Minibar / Fridge
Satellite TV
More Hotels in Old Havana:
UK Sales :: Audrey :: +44 20 7498 8555 or 0800 298 9555
USA & Canada Sales :: Jeffery or Bastien :: Toll Free 888 361 9555
Havana Tourist Center :: Idelsis :: +53 7 863 9555
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If you're going to be at the New York Comic Con later this week, you might want to check out the panel hosted by Newsweek's N'Gai Croal and MTV's Stephen Totilo.
The two will be talking with Fallout 3's Toff Howard and BioShock's Ken Levine in what they're calling Vs. Mode Live. The one hour discussion and debate will center on the current generation of video games and what's to come.
You can also expect, according to Totilo, a "freewheeling exchange" which is much better than those other kinds.
We'll be on hand at Comic Con, though it's still unclear whether we made the list to get into this unprecedented event.
Announcement: Todd Howard, Ken Levine Will Be MTV's Featured Guests At NY Comicon Panel